"I couldn't bear to think about it;..." - Quote by Mark Twain
I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.
More by Mark Twain
“The solution to our water problems is more rain.”
“We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.”
“All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.”
More on Thought
“Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.”
“Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.”
“Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.”
More on Obsession
“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.”
“I knew that I had seen, had seen at lastThat girl my unremembering nights hold fastOr else my dreams that flyIf I should rub an eye,And yet in flying fling into my meatA crazy juice that makes the pulses beat.”
“I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.”